It's Christmastime, and farmer Lucy Resnick is living the life she's always dreamed of. When she's not selling her jams, soaps, and mistletoe bundles at the Buttercup Christmas Market, she's enjoying cozy evenings by the fire with her knitting group--or her handsome veterinarian boyfriend Tobias Brandt. But less than a week before Christmas, a pall falls over the festive atmosphere when local man Randy Stone turns up with a knife in his back... and a sprig of mistletoe in his hair.
Local sheriff Rooster Kocurek, never the brightest bulb on the string, is convinced it's an open-and-shut case--murder by jealous wife--but Lucy suspects otherwise. She soon discovers that Randy's life was more tangled than last year's Christmas lights... and that unless she wraps up the case fast, there might be more than one funeral this holiday season.
Christmas time should be full of family, fun, love and happiness - but this is Buttercup and nothing seems to go that smoothly!
Lucy is getting things ready for the Christmas market (candles, soaps, sprigs of mistletoe etc) and she is also trying to knit a scarf for her boyfriend, the veterinarian Tobias, the market items are going well - the scarf not so much! Mind you she isn't the only one Flora has joined the Buttercup Knitters and wants to finish a baby blanket for her nephew, when they are tidying up she has to admit that the nephew is now applying for his drivers permit and she had joined to stop herself rattling around the house on her own. Lucy comes up with the idea that Flora can help her man (err woman) the market stall and when she does Flora comes up with some brilliant ideas for more bath products, oh and she seems to have caught the eye of Gus a local woodworker.
So everything is looking rosy and Festive - until the sister of one of the knitters is arrested for stabbing her philandering husband! Mandy doesn't believe her sister could do this and asks for Lucy's help (after all Sheriff Rooster Kocurek thinks he has solved the crime quickly and so isn't looking at anyone else), then there is another death, a woman disappears and a skeleton and some paintings are found during the renovations of the Town Hall! Now with the Sheriff having (literally) shot himself in the foot Lucy and Tobias as trying to find out the truth, before the missing woman becomes yet another victim!
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